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China concludes international film festival amid market recovery

Xinhua | Updated: 2020-08-05 09:43
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Outdoor screenings were scheduled during the 23rd Shanghai International Film Festival. [Photo/Xinhua]

China wrapped up the Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) on Sunday, sending a positive signal that the world's second-largest film market is making a steady recovery.

With much of the world in the grip of COVID-19, the 23rd SIFF was something of a rarity among category-A film festivals, as most foreign festivals were postponed or shifted their main events online.

The SIFF was shorn of the star-studded red carpet and awards ceremony, with nominees for its two major film awards announced but no winners selected. However, the nine-day event still screened 320 Chinese and foreign movies, bringing more than 147,500 viewers into the city's cinemas.

Return of cinema going

The film pageant has been hailed as spearheading the revival of the Chinese film market after the country lifted a months-long closure of cinemas amid the waning epidemic.

China allowed cinemas in low-risk areas to reopen starting on July 20. That day's box office takings stood at a paltry 3.5 million yuan ($503,000f) amid stringent anti-virus measures in cinemas, ticket sale caps and a limited choice of new films.

Yet other figures suggested the enthusiasm of the market was yet to be unleashed. The SIFF started ticket sales on the same day, and saw 100,000 tickets sold in 10 minutes.

On July 25, when the SIFF raised its curtains, the Chinese mainland box office took 33.7 million yuan, and on Aug 2, when the festival concluded, the figure was 50 million yuan.

"The audience's enthusiasm has survived (the epidemic), which is the best news for the movie industry," said Yu Dong, chairman of Bona Film Group, who urged the industry to boost production to make up for the half-year lull caused by the outbreak.

Technological innovation also smoothed the resumption of business for cinemas, according to Li Jie, vice president of Alibaba Group and president of Alibaba Pictures.

Ticketing platform Taopiaopiao, for instance, updated its system to conflate the 30-percent cap on ticket sales with the requirement of selling non-adjacent tickets on the very day that cinemas reopened, Li said, hailing the rapid innovation that took place during the pandemic.

The film festival also gave a boost to the market warm-up. In Shanghai, 271 movie theaters, or 70 percent of the total, have reopened, compared with 148 at the start of the event. A total of 1,146 screenings for SIFF movies were held, with over half of the viewers being aged below 30, indicating a comeback of an age group with strong ticket-purchase power.

Fu Wenxia, managing director of the Shanghai International Film & TV Events Center, said it is of special significance that the SIFF was held five days after cinemas were allowed to reopen.

"With bargain tickets and abundant film options, the film festival gave lots of encouragement to movie fans. Holding it at this time serves to warm up the recovery of the national market," she said.

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